It seems to me that "Just Some Guy" was saying that you could always find a prime number that *started* with the digits you were interested in. So you would only be interested in a portion of the prime number.
I don't know if you could always find such a prime number, but I have a gut feeling that such a number exists for each case.
The drift velocity of an electron in copper is about 0.0024 cm/sec . Drift velocity being the actual forward progress of a single electron.
Now, because the copper wire is full of electrons, if you push one in one side, a different one will pop out the other shortly thereafter. Maybe that is the 0.3c speed you were talking about.
Don't you think that is something the artists should worry about themselves?
I don't think we need to do anything about the RIAA directly. They have as much right to exist as anybody/anything else. The RIAA sure does seem greedy, but that is their perogative. The Artists themselves are mostly adults, who should be able to take care of themselves. Nobody is forcing them to go through the RIAA, the Artists Chose to go with them.
Napster seems like a great circumvention of the RIAA, yet I also think people who violate copyrights should be prosecuted. And in their trial if they can prove the copyright is ridiculous or whatever, great.
But I am amazed that the same people who say "Fuck the RIAA, we need to get the money straight to the Artists (except metallica)" are the same ones who are illegally grabbing and distributing these songs. Hipocrisy.
I don't hear much of anything from any artists regarding the RIAA. Granted, I don't look too hard either. Seems to me that if they were all that upset with the RIAA, they would find/create an alternative.
The article states that integrated circuits are all made from silicon. This is not true. A majority of integrated circuits are silicon, but a lot of high speed CPUs are gallium-arsenide.
And I believe a lot of LEDs are made from gallium arsenide. Maybe a mix of germanium and gallium too.
I am a little confused by this 3cm number. I really don't know what I am doing, but if I were to calculate the wavelength of a 10 ghz signal i would need to know the speed it moved at.
If I assume it is pretty close to the speed of light, then the wave length would be... oh. never mind.
I think he is saying that you can copy and repost jabberwocky to your hearts content, and if you properly credit the author, you are in the clear and don't need permission. (because it is less than 200 words.
It is all well and good to design a processor in VHDL or Verilog or whatever, and that would be easy to open source...
But you have to get a synthesis library from the fab before you can really make anything. You've got to synthesize the design, using the fab libs, and using software from synopsys or mentor or whoever, to get the timing and layout and the actual primitives themselves. Unlikely that you could opensource anything produced in this step.
A lot of the tweaking to get something synthesized takes place outside of the VHDL or Verilog, and depend on packaging, process size, etc...
Besides, it would be pretty tough to prove that a certain chunk of silicon came from a specific chunk of VHDL.
So you can opensource the vhdl or verilog, and this is worthwhile. My company just spent a large chunk of cash on a vhdl PCI "core". Basically a bunch of vhdl and a guarantee that they once got it to synthesize.
Does anybody wonder why a government would want to subsidize giving internet access to poorer folk?
Wouldn't that money be better spent elsewhere? Why do slashdotters think some hungry joe in brazil gives a flying sh*t about the internet?
Maybe there are some ulterior motives to this. This suddenly introduces a great method of gaining information and tracking a population that was previously an anonymous conglomeration.
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I'm sorry I was that rude to you earlier.
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Exactly what does "almost explosive" mean? Is there a burn rate at which something becomes explosive vs almost explosive? I am legitimately asking.
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I went to a public school. I was in 6th grade when the shuttle exploded, in music class. I don't remember any class clowns making jokes that day, but there were definitely a lot of jokes after a few days.
You are wrong about the DNA. Well, right in most cases, but I believe viruses (virii?) inject DNA (or some kind of genetic material) into cells, changing what they do (causes the cells to produce more virus particles or orangisms.)
Dorking around with corn and grain or whatever could have the same affect.
I'm not going to harp on religion much here, but come on: "Religion is a shitty choice of things to use to justify a view that otherwise might be considered a bit out there." Please.
I don't think that profit motives are a major player in this decision. They probably opened some eyes to the situation, but the way they are choosing to rectify it, to me, indicates it is for the integrity of the game.
It is late, and my reasoning may be flawed. But I think if profit were the motivator, or the prime motivator (that sounds cool), well I think Sony would open up their own everquest auction site. They could undercut whatever eBay's take is, and keep the auctions in house, and make a slight amount of cash.
Doesn't look like that is what they are doing though. So that leads me to think it is the ultimate profit incentive: Game Integrity. If the game loses its integrity, it loses its player base. End of story there. Oops, looks like I think the decision was profit motivated, but not the way you implied in your post.
Besides, It *is* sony's game. they can do whatever the heck they want with it. And if that means denying people the game because Sony didn't like the way they played, too bad. I don't open my front door to everybody who knocks. I gauge, via the peephole, whether I want them to gain entry or not. Some people just don't make the list. They don't sue me because I don't let them in (I'm not that popular:).
On a sort of side note, I think computer people get way too excited over the concept of virtual.
Apparently you do have something against christians...you called them stupid.
I am a christian and I have nothing against genetically modified rice or crops or whatever. I don't have a problem with artificial insemenation (sp?), in vitro fertilization, or genetically modified people (clones included). But one should be ready to face the consequences of such actions. A lot of christians believe that damnation is a consequence of some of this stuff. Seems like a pretty harsh consequence... if I knew an action of a friend was going to have some major consequences, I'd probably talk to them about it.
Right now I don't have a clue what the consequences of eating genetically modified rice are, so I can't be ready to face them. And as for modifying people...I'd probably avoid that one too. Probably. If I knew that my kid had some kind of disease that could be 'cured' with genetic modification, well, maybe I would do that.
Doesn't monsanto or someone have modified corn and grain? I believe, and I could be way off here, that they just use it as livestock feed. But we are still ingesting this indirectly.
I thought it was a thoroughly enjoyable movie, but I am in the minority there (at least among my friends).
and it wasn't because of the fighting. Now that I think of it, the whole movie could have been done without the fighting--any cult metaphore might have worked. Maybe not. I could have done without some of the fight scenes anyway.
I thought it was very funny, I thought the acting was great--norton, pitt, and carter were excellent. I don't quite follow slashdot reader's problem with pitt. I couldn't stop laughing at meatloaf (now there is a quote to be taken out of context).
The dvd is great, the commentaries are great, and some of the behind the scenes stuff was pretty neat.
I went to the book store to take a look at the book... I scanned it briefly. It read pretty much like norton's narrative in the movie, so I decided not to buy that one. I did pick up another book by the same author (chuck something... palaniuk?) called "Invisible Monsters." It was the most terrible, awful, dumb plotted books I've ever touched. Ugh. I haven't looked at any of his other books, if he has any.
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Thus, given an infinite period of time, _all_ events that are possible will eventually occur. In other words, if you wait an infinitely long time, you'll eventually teleport to the inner ring of Neptune.
Unless you are destroyed by [probable_event] first.
Points of infinite density? Is that what black holes are supposed to be? I don't know much about the current percieved physics of blackholes, but I didn't think they were infinitely dense.
I think I agree with you, if you are saying that the War on Drugs is a bad thing.
I saw this movie last night, and I didn't like it very much. I expected more substance, as in character not drugs. None of the characters ran too deep. The whole story was predictable. The acting was pretty good, except for micheal douglas' speech near the end--that was bad.
I suppose my problem might have been that I couldn't relate to anyone in the movie. Except the kids doing drugs, having meaningless conversations about society--that reminded me of college.
I thought it was slightly humorous having Steven Bauer play the american drug lord (ref: scarface). He should have had a bigger role.
I yawned a few times in the movie, and got twitchy in my seat. Some people left the movie early. All signs of a mediocre film. It just didn't click with me.
I'm not sure what movie to compare this to. Maybe The Perfect Storm. They both had a documentary quality to them. Traffic less so, but still there.
I think it is worth a matinee price on a day where you have nothing to do.
In my line of work, we often end up fighting the tools, or try to figure out why something didn't work as expected. Occasionally I'll witness a colleague having trouble with a tool or working on some mystery output, and I'll offer a suggestion on what might be happening--I do this because I generally have a better feel for what is happening behind the scenes of the application than many of my colleagues.
Some people require more justification or clarification or explanation of why they should do something a certain way.
Occasionally I'll have a pretty good idea on a new way to do things at work, and I'll talk with my boss about it, and he or she will occasionally require a lot more justification than I think is necessary.
All of my bosses, thus far, are white. If I were black, perhaps I would infer some racism in these extensive justifications. Racism that wasn't ever there.
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It seems to me that "Just Some Guy" was saying that you could always find a prime number that *started* with the digits you were interested in. So you would only be interested in a portion of the prime number.
I don't know if you could always find such a prime number, but I have a gut feeling that such a number exists for each case.
The drift velocity of an electron in copper is about 0.0024 cm/sec . Drift velocity being the actual forward progress of a single electron.
Now, because the copper wire is full of electrons, if you push one in one side, a different one will pop out the other shortly thereafter. Maybe that is the 0.3c speed you were talking about.
Yes, that is pretty simple, and a reasonable and good thing to do, given the way you feel about the RIAA.
Don't you think that is something the artists should worry about themselves?
I don't think we need to do anything about the RIAA directly. They have as much right to exist as anybody/anything else. The RIAA sure does seem greedy, but that is their perogative. The Artists themselves are mostly adults, who should be able to take care of themselves. Nobody is forcing them to go through the RIAA, the Artists Chose to go with them.
Napster seems like a great circumvention of the RIAA, yet I also think people who violate copyrights should be prosecuted. And in their trial if they can prove the copyright is ridiculous or whatever, great.
But I am amazed that the same people who say "Fuck the RIAA, we need to get the money straight to the Artists (except metallica)" are the same ones who are illegally grabbing and distributing these songs. Hipocrisy.
I don't hear much of anything from any artists regarding the RIAA. Granted, I don't look too hard either. Seems to me that if they were all that upset with the RIAA, they would find/create an alternative.
The article states that integrated circuits are all made from silicon. This is not true. A majority of integrated circuits are silicon, but a lot of high speed CPUs are gallium-arsenide.
And I believe a lot of LEDs are made from gallium arsenide. Maybe a mix of germanium and gallium too.
I am a little confused by this 3cm number. I really don't know what I am doing, but if I were to calculate the wavelength of a 10 ghz signal i would need to know the speed it moved at.
If I assume it is pretty close to the speed of light, then the wave length would be... oh. never mind.
I think he is saying that you can copy and repost jabberwocky to your hearts content, and if you properly credit the author, you are in the clear and don't need permission. (because it is less than 200 words.
Math is hard?
Synthesis is the problem.
It is all well and good to design a processor in VHDL or Verilog or whatever, and that would be easy to open source...
But you have to get a synthesis library from the fab before you can really make anything. You've got to synthesize the design, using the fab libs, and using software from synopsys or mentor or whoever, to get the timing and layout and the actual primitives themselves. Unlikely that you could opensource anything produced in this step.
A lot of the tweaking to get something synthesized takes place outside of the VHDL or Verilog, and depend on packaging, process size, etc...
Besides, it would be pretty tough to prove that a certain chunk of silicon came from a specific chunk of VHDL.
So you can opensource the vhdl or verilog, and this is worthwhile. My company just spent a large chunk of cash on a vhdl PCI "core". Basically a bunch of vhdl and a guarantee that they once got it to synthesize.
Does anybody wonder why a government would want to subsidize giving internet access to poorer folk?
Wouldn't that money be better spent elsewhere? Why do slashdotters think some hungry joe in brazil gives a flying sh*t about the internet?
Maybe there are some ulterior motives to this. This suddenly introduces a great method of gaining information and tracking a population that was previously an anonymous conglomeration.
I'm sorry I was that rude to you earlier.
you are right. that other guy is a moron.
Exactly what does "almost explosive" mean? Is there a burn rate at which something becomes explosive vs almost explosive? I am legitimately asking.
I went to a public school. I was in 6th grade when the shuttle exploded, in music class. I don't remember any class clowns making jokes that day, but there were definitely a lot of jokes after a few days.
You are wrong about the DNA. Well, right in most cases, but I believe viruses (virii?) inject DNA (or some kind of genetic material) into cells, changing what they do (causes the cells to produce more virus particles or orangisms.)
Dorking around with corn and grain or whatever could have the same affect.
I'm not going to harp on religion much here, but come on: "Religion is a shitty choice of things to use to justify a view that otherwise might be considered a bit out there." Please.
I don't think that profit motives are a major player in this decision. They probably opened some eyes to the situation, but the way they are choosing to rectify it, to me, indicates it is for the integrity of the game.
:).
It is late, and my reasoning may be flawed. But I think if profit were the motivator, or the prime motivator (that sounds cool), well I think Sony would open up their own everquest auction site. They could undercut whatever eBay's take is, and keep the auctions in house, and make a slight amount of cash.
Doesn't look like that is what they are doing though. So that leads me to think it is the ultimate profit incentive: Game Integrity. If the game loses its integrity, it loses its player base. End of story there. Oops, looks like I think the decision was profit motivated, but not the way you implied in your post.
Besides, It *is* sony's game. they can do whatever the heck they want with it. And if that means denying people the game because Sony didn't like the way they played, too bad. I don't open my front door to everybody who knocks. I gauge, via the peephole, whether I want them to gain entry or not. Some people just don't make the list. They don't sue me because I don't let them in (I'm not that popular
On a sort of side note, I think computer people get way too excited over the concept of virtual.
Apparently you do have something against christians...you called them stupid.
I am a christian and I have nothing against genetically modified rice or crops or whatever. I don't have a problem with artificial insemenation (sp?), in vitro fertilization, or genetically modified people (clones included). But one should be ready to face the consequences of such actions. A lot of christians believe that damnation is a consequence of some of this stuff. Seems like a pretty harsh consequence... if I knew an action of a friend was going to have some major consequences, I'd probably talk to them about it.
Right now I don't have a clue what the consequences of eating genetically modified rice are, so I can't be ready to face them. And as for modifying people...I'd probably avoid that one too. Probably. If I knew that my kid had some kind of disease that could be 'cured' with genetic modification, well, maybe I would do that.
Doesn't monsanto or someone have modified corn and grain? I believe, and I could be way off here, that they just use it as livestock feed. But we are still ingesting this indirectly.
People are going to have to get used to choosing genetically modified crops.
--Scott
I thought it was a thoroughly enjoyable movie, but I am in the minority there (at least among my friends).
and it wasn't because of the fighting. Now that I think of it, the whole movie could have been done without the fighting--any cult metaphore might have worked. Maybe not. I could have done without some of the fight scenes anyway.
I thought it was very funny, I thought the acting was great--norton, pitt, and carter were excellent. I don't quite follow slashdot reader's problem with pitt. I couldn't stop laughing at meatloaf (now there is a quote to be taken out of context).
The dvd is great, the commentaries are great, and some of the behind the scenes stuff was pretty neat.
I went to the book store to take a look at the book... I scanned it briefly. It read pretty much like norton's narrative in the movie, so I decided not to buy that one. I did pick up another book by the same author (chuck something... palaniuk?) called "Invisible Monsters." It was the most terrible, awful, dumb plotted books I've ever touched. Ugh. I haven't looked at any of his other books, if he has any.
Thus, given an infinite period of time, _all_ events that are possible will eventually occur. In other words, if you wait an infinitely long time, you'll eventually teleport to the inner ring of Neptune.
Unless you are destroyed by [probable_event] first.
yeah, I was wrong (pulling foot out of mouth).
So that is what the klaxons and flashing lights were on the stealth bomber.
Points of infinite density? Is that what black holes are supposed to be? I don't know much about the current percieved physics of blackholes, but I didn't think they were infinitely dense.
Can someone fill me in on this.
I think I agree with you, if you are saying that the War on Drugs is a bad thing.
I saw this movie last night, and I didn't like it very much. I expected more substance, as in character not drugs. None of the characters ran too deep. The whole story was predictable. The acting was pretty good, except for micheal douglas' speech near the end--that was bad.
I suppose my problem might have been that I couldn't relate to anyone in the movie. Except the kids doing drugs, having meaningless conversations about society--that reminded me of college.
I thought it was slightly humorous having Steven Bauer play the american drug lord (ref: scarface). He should have had a bigger role.
I yawned a few times in the movie, and got twitchy in my seat. Some people left the movie early. All signs of a mediocre film. It just didn't click with me.
I'm not sure what movie to compare this to. Maybe The Perfect Storm. They both had a documentary quality to them. Traffic less so, but still there.
I think it is worth a matinee price on a day where you have nothing to do.
--Scott
In my line of work, we often end up fighting the tools, or try to figure out why something didn't work as expected. Occasionally I'll witness a colleague having trouble with a tool or working on some mystery output, and I'll offer a suggestion on what might be happening--I do this because I generally have a better feel for what is happening behind the scenes of the application than many of my colleagues.
Some people require more justification or clarification or explanation of why they should do something a certain way.
Occasionally I'll have a pretty good idea on a new way to do things at work, and I'll talk with my boss about it, and he or she will occasionally require a lot more justification than I think is necessary.
All of my bosses, thus far, are white. If I were black, perhaps I would infer some racism in these extensive justifications. Racism that wasn't ever there.