That is definately something to take into consideration. I actually open slashdot in Outlook 2003 to make it look like I'm just checking my email. And, if someone is really close to me in the office, I do a quick Control + A, Control + C, and an Alt F4, then I open up excel and paste it into a comment to make it look like I'm really working!!! Damn... after typing that out I realise that maybe I do deserve the measely 11.50 CDN and hour that I make... heh!
That is a hell of a lot of information. It's wierd though, that sometimes I feel as if I've already "read the internet" and I can't find anything new. But, then again, I'm the kind of guy who will go on wikipedia to look up someone's birth place and then start reading about the Crusades and somehow end up reading about emperor penguins 6 hours later...
I'm not sure if this is feasable as it would be hard to ward off spammers, but is there any chance that we could see an OSS distributed search system that works like SETI@HOME?
Heh, and here I was all excited to hear about some breakthrough science, when negative information is nothing more than my brain trying to forget all the uglies.
"In the quantum world, there are things we just cannot know, no matter how clever we are. For example, we cannot know both the position and momentum of a small particle exactly. One can also have situations where someone knows more than everything. This is known as quantum 'entanglement', and when two people share entanglement, there can be negative information. "
Hidden Black Holes Finally Found
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 03 August 2005
01:24 pm ET
A host of hidden black holes have been revealed in a narrow region of the sky, confirming astronomers' suspicions that the universe is loaded with many undetected gravity wells.
Black holes cannot be seen directly, because they trap light and anything else that gets too close. But astronomers infer their presence by noting the behavior of material nearby: gas is superheated and accelerated to a significant fraction of light-speed just before it is consumed.
The activity releases X-rays that escape the black hole's clutches and reveal its presence.
The most active black holes eat so voraciously that they create a colossal cloud of gas and dust around them, through which astronomers cannot peer. That sometimes prevents observations of the region nearest the black hole, making it impossible to verify what's actually there.
These hyperactive black holes are called quasars. They can consume the mass of a thousand stars a year and are thought to be precursers to large, normal galaxies. The exist primarily at great distances, seen as they existed when the universe was young.
A few quasars have been identified, but many more are thought to await discovery, based on the total number of X-rays detected in broad sky surveys.
"From past studies using X-rays, we expected there were a lot of hidden quasars, but we couldn't find them," said study leader Alejo Martínez-Sansigre of the University of Oxford, England.
New observations with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope cut through dust to spot quasars blocked by their own clouds, as well as other quasars hidden inside galactic dust.
Spitzer records infrared light, which penetrates dust. It found 21 quasars in a small patch of sky.
"If you extrapolate our 21 quasars out to the rest of the sky, you get a whole lot of quasars," said study team member Mark Lacy of the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology. "This means that, as suspected, most super-massive black hole growth is hidden by dust."
The results are detailed in the Aug. 4 issue of the journal Nature.
True, what I meant was that many teachers don't write there own course material. I should have said that "some" of them do, as the majority really do put a lot of effort into their work.
Having a computer for every student is not a good thing, in my opinion. Actually, I believe that any computers in classrooms are for the most part a bad idea - and this is coming from a former computer programming student.
With computers in every classroom, it really requires each teacher to become a system admin and I think it really distracts the students from their work. I have a friend from Vietnam, who never had computers in his classrooms growing up, and he was way more skillful in math then the rest of us students that grew up with computers in the class in Canada.
And, it's not just the cost of software that's expensive for schools. It's the hardware, maintenance, and electricity costs too! The Ontario teachers union is always bitching about not having enough resources, but any good teacher should do just fine with a box of pencils, some paper, a chalkboard, and some chalk.
Offtopic:
Now with the standardised curriculum, many of the teachers are basically just babysitters that hand out material written by someone else. It must be hard working 6 hours a day, 9 months a year.
Actually, the moment I hit submit I regretted it. Ideally I think my above statement is correct, but realistically if I saw a lynching I would want everyone involved to fry.
Alternate but flawed. If someone murders me (a white, straight, atheist, Canadian male) they should get the same punishment as someone who assaults a black, gay, jewish, Saudi woman. Right?
Slashdot Mirror
At least there will be people in the stands watching the events. Athens was a joke.
Login: SlashyLaRue
Password: slashdot
Yeah, just walk long the bottom and the squids can't get ya.
Why else do you think there is so many google stories? The owners of Slashdot are kissin some serious ass to be on that page.
You can't fucking be serious.
For those of you like me wondering what the desktop looks like, I found this image on of regular SUSE linux:
SUSE DESKTOP from OSDir.com
And I'm quite aware that the desktops are highly configurable and very much the same on most distributions.
That is definately something to take into consideration. I actually open slashdot in Outlook 2003 to make it look like I'm just checking my email. And, if someone is really close to me in the office, I do a quick Control + A, Control + C, and an Alt F4, then I open up excel and paste it into a comment to make it look like I'm really working!!! Damn... after typing that out I realise that maybe I do deserve the measely 11.50 CDN and hour that I make... heh!
That is a hell of a lot of information. It's wierd though, that sometimes I feel as if I've already "read the internet" and I can't find anything new. But, then again, I'm the kind of guy who will go on wikipedia to look up someone's birth place and then start reading about the Crusades and somehow end up reading about emperor penguins 6 hours later...
I've found that yahoo! slurp is almost always my most frequent visitor to my websites.
I know that was a joke, but I bet many slashdot users (like me) are still more than likely just fans of the idea of linux, than the actually software.
I'm not sure if this is feasable as it would be hard to ward off spammers, but is there any chance that we could see an OSS distributed search system that works like SETI@HOME?
Maybe I'll patent it, before Epicrealm does...
Thanks! That was some great positive information!
Heh, and here I was all excited to hear about some breakthrough science, when negative information is nothing more than my brain trying to forget all the uglies.
"In the quantum world, there are things we just cannot know, no matter how clever we are. For example, we cannot know both the position and momentum of a small particle exactly. One can also have situations where someone knows more than everything. This is known as quantum 'entanglement', and when two people share entanglement, there can be negative information. "
My brain hurts!
I don't even know what karma is in relation to slashdot... is it to get mod points? Take it east buddy.
Hidden Black Holes Finally Found
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 03 August 2005
01:24 pm ET
A host of hidden black holes have been revealed in a narrow region of the sky, confirming astronomers' suspicions that the universe is loaded with many undetected gravity wells.
Black holes cannot be seen directly, because they trap light and anything else that gets too close. But astronomers infer their presence by noting the behavior of material nearby: gas is superheated and accelerated to a significant fraction of light-speed just before it is consumed.
The activity releases X-rays that escape the black hole's clutches and reveal its presence.
The most active black holes eat so voraciously that they create a colossal cloud of gas and dust around them, through which astronomers cannot peer. That sometimes prevents observations of the region nearest the black hole, making it impossible to verify what's actually there.
These hyperactive black holes are called quasars. They can consume the mass of a thousand stars a year and are thought to be precursers to large, normal galaxies. The exist primarily at great distances, seen as they existed when the universe was young.
A few quasars have been identified, but many more are thought to await discovery, based on the total number of X-rays detected in broad sky surveys.
"From past studies using X-rays, we expected there were a lot of hidden quasars, but we couldn't find them," said study leader Alejo Martínez-Sansigre of the University of Oxford, England.
New observations with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope cut through dust to spot quasars blocked by their own clouds, as well as other quasars hidden inside galactic dust.
Spitzer records infrared light, which penetrates dust. It found 21 quasars in a small patch of sky.
"If you extrapolate our 21 quasars out to the rest of the sky, you get a whole lot of quasars," said study team member Mark Lacy of the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology. "This means that, as suspected, most super-massive black hole growth is hidden by dust."
The results are detailed in the Aug. 4 issue of the journal Nature.
True, what I meant was that many teachers don't write there own course material. I should have said that "some" of them do, as the majority really do put a lot of effort into their work.
I said many teachers.
Having a computer for every student is not a good thing, in my opinion. Actually, I believe that any computers in classrooms are for the most part a bad idea - and this is coming from a former computer programming student.
With computers in every classroom, it really requires each teacher to become a system admin and I think it really distracts the students from their work. I have a friend from Vietnam, who never had computers in his classrooms growing up, and he was way more skillful in math then the rest of us students that grew up with computers in the class in Canada.
And, it's not just the cost of software that's expensive for schools. It's the hardware, maintenance, and electricity costs too! The Ontario teachers union is always bitching about not having enough resources, but any good teacher should do just fine with a box of pencils, some paper, a chalkboard, and some chalk.
Offtopic:
Now with the standardised curriculum, many of the teachers are basically just babysitters that hand out material written by someone else. It must be hard working 6 hours a day, 9 months a year.
"This is unethical" Obviously... no really, why would you even feel the need to write that?
Actually, the moment I hit submit I regretted it. Ideally I think my above statement is correct, but realistically if I saw a lynching I would want everyone involved to fry.
Alternate but flawed. If someone murders me (a white, straight, atheist, Canadian male) they should get the same punishment as someone who assaults a black, gay, jewish, Saudi woman. Right?
I'm going to blame those girls for making me drink heavily the next day to forget.
Kinda like making hate crime laws, when existing laws would do the trick if enforced correctly.
Exactly, it's just too bad that in America some of the laws are precise - but rediculous.