The Vikings landed on Mars IN THE 70s?!? Damnit, they beat us to America by almost 500 years, and they beat us again to Mars by at least 50 years! Oh well fortunately in both cases most people don't know these guys were first..
Using Sun's Energy to Split Water Means Solar Power All Night
Well perhaps using Sun's energy is easy for you, but for those of us who don't live close to Sun's headquarters, it is impractical to buy a 100 mile long extension cord.
I live at a walking distance from Sun's HQ in Dublin and I wouldn't put solar panels up here!
They'll be the leaders of the world regarding industry, technology (maybe not innovation/R&D), businessish stuff like commerce and all that, but it takes so much more than being an economic super-power to achieve cultural supremacy. 40 years from now China may be the top dog, but everybody will still watch American movies. Their culture will have a very tough time imposing itself, and I don't think China's reign will last long enough for it to happen even remotely. Besides, you don't want to hear China's eventual Britney Spears, there's just too much hostility towards a culture as different as theirs.
It's the only body other than Earth that has running liquids, lakes, shorelines, rivers, water erosion, and an atmosphere about as dense as Earth's (besides giant planets the other bodies either have ridiculously tenuous atmosphere, weak atmospheres like Mars, only Titan and Venus compare but Venus has a surface pressure of 95 bars, Titan only 1.46).
Besides Titan's atmosphere is 98.4% nitrogen, as the Earth's is 78% nitrogen, and only 1.6% of it is methane, which makes me wonder if it would even react with any eventual oxygen. And some terrestrial bacteria survive everything, even long journeys in space, or stays on the Moon (they did that experiment with Apollo 12).
The point is, just look at a damn map or aerial photography or Titan, it's the only place reminiscent of Earth, with all these coastlines, lakes, islands, rivers.. it's like a frozen lifeless foggy Earth.
Mmmh, you seem quite knowledgeable about USENET clients, so tell me this, what sort of newsreader will automatically track posts you made and report replies made to your very posts? I've been looking for that forever.
That's a most silly argument. You could apply that to anything related to task automation. As in, why have something like cron when you can just look at your clock and run stuff on time.
Dude, you're pretty fucking thick. I don't doubt that you have knowledge, but you're misusing it. It has nothing to do with factors. Look, there's nothing special about the index size, it's pretty much a random number in the whereabouts of 121 billion, correct? We must agree on that. And our arbitrary number could be any number, I mean, the falsifiability of my claim can be tested by trying any other number.
So, considered the order of magnitude of each number, the distribution of the module of the index by my "magic number" is roughly normal, correct? Therefore, the probability for the result of the modulo to be 0 is 1/my_magic_number. What's hard to understand about this? And don't give me no shit about factors, give me a piece of your mind about the modulo and its distribution.
It's not like I found this number by decomposing the index into factors to begin with. I found it by performing a search that only returned 1 result but Cuil claimed to have 2,784. It's not like I tailored it to fit. From that point on, how far fetched is it to ponder if, just like when it claims 2,784 results I only get one, that if it claims to have an index of 43,684,588 * 2,784 it really may only have 43,684,588, considered there's only a 1 in 2,784 chance that this 43,684,588 would be an integer to begin with, considered the index modulo that 2,784 number should be random?
I accept your apology for calling me a moron.
Probability is deterministic. It's not a matter of opinion or pov. It's arithmetic.
But more seriously, where's the #1 forum to discuss C programming? comp.lang.c. Where's the #1 forum to discuss DSP? comp.dsp, so much that other DSP "forums" only provide an interface to it. Where's the #1 spot to tell people your new theory as to how FTL travel is possible using hidden dimensions in the aether? sci.physics.
So you see, it's not dead, or even resting, some of its branches died, some others are still thriving.
Wow, I don't even know what to say to this. This is probably the most stupid, irritating and infuriating article I've ever not read.
Mind boggling. USENET. Dead. It doesn't even need an explanation as to why it's retarded, at least not to someone who has interesting (technical) discussions there on a regular basis.
So what? The fact is, I find this 2,784 number. From that point of view, how likely is it that the huge number they claim that I look up next is a multiple of that 2,784 number? 1 out of 2,784. Period. I get your point, but it's a matter of point of view.
Thank you for your input. The point of the original comment was that it was extraordinarily unlikely that the total claimed index divided by this one "data point" would result in an integer number, therefore raising the legitimate question of whether or not this number had been inflated by that "2,784" number. Obviously you missed that point.
By the way, YouTube just called, they want their inflammatory knee-jerk reactions back.
Which makes me wonder where I can buy a spy camera for my car. I mean, if you want to film it when you get pulled over, that's what you want in your car. You also want that if ever you "get lucky" in your car. That being said I don't have a car and I never had much "luck" anyways.
Make it one with a fisheye lens by the way, or a movement tracker.
Slashdot Mirror
No 10.3 version? Cry me a river. Are you going to complain about the lack of Windows 98 version as well?
Whooosh?
They might have been slow with this patch, but boy does it look good!
No OS X 10.3 version. Less secure than the PF workaround. Lame.
Or that the surface of mercury is hot due to its closeness to the same sun.
Venus just called, they beg to differ on what you call 'hot'.
The Viking landers observed frost in the 70's.
The Vikings landed on Mars IN THE 70s?!? Damnit, they beat us to America by almost 500 years, and they beat us again to Mars by at least 50 years! Oh well fortunately in both cases most people don't know these guys were first..
So the Reuters article is incorrect in saying that the new system still uses platinum for extracting hydrogen?
What.. huh.. I.. I was supposed to RTFA??
Damnit Roger Moore, I thought you were pretty annoying in your James Bond movies, but you're even worse in reality. And by reality I mean Slashdot.
Long story short, the new thing is much cheaper and efficient than platinum.
Using Sun's Energy to Split Water Means Solar Power All Night
Well perhaps using Sun's energy is easy for you, but for those of us who don't live close to Sun's headquarters, it is impractical to buy a 100 mile long extension cord.
I live at a walking distance from Sun's HQ in Dublin and I wouldn't put solar panels up here!
And the food you run on to power your bike got to the grocery store where you bought it how exactly?
Crap, don't post right before going to bed.
I'd rather that we spend the money on bike paths. We all need the exercise.
And the food you run on to power your bike to the grocery store where you bought it how exactly?
Looks like SimCity 3000 except in 3D.
Wake me up when Take2 buys the franchise and that I get my GTA SimCity cross-over. Designing a city and then GTAing the fuck out of it? Let me drool!
They'll be the leaders of the world regarding industry, technology (maybe not innovation/R&D), businessish stuff like commerce and all that, but it takes so much more than being an economic super-power to achieve cultural supremacy. 40 years from now China may be the top dog, but everybody will still watch American movies. Their culture will have a very tough time imposing itself, and I don't think China's reign will last long enough for it to happen even remotely. Besides, you don't want to hear China's eventual Britney Spears, there's just too much hostility towards a culture as different as theirs.
It's the only body other than Earth that has running liquids, lakes, shorelines, rivers, water erosion, and an atmosphere about as dense as Earth's (besides giant planets the other bodies either have ridiculously tenuous atmosphere, weak atmospheres like Mars, only Titan and Venus compare but Venus has a surface pressure of 95 bars, Titan only 1.46).
Besides Titan's atmosphere is 98.4% nitrogen, as the Earth's is 78% nitrogen, and only 1.6% of it is methane, which makes me wonder if it would even react with any eventual oxygen. And some terrestrial bacteria survive everything, even long journeys in space, or stays on the Moon (they did that experiment with Apollo 12).
The point is, just look at a damn map or aerial photography or Titan, it's the only place reminiscent of Earth, with all these coastlines, lakes, islands, rivers.. it's like a frozen lifeless foggy Earth.
Mmmh, you seem quite knowledgeable about USENET clients, so tell me this, what sort of newsreader will automatically track posts you made and report replies made to your very posts? I've been looking for that forever.
That's a most silly argument. You could apply that to anything related to task automation. As in, why have something like cron when you can just look at your clock and run stuff on time.
How convenient. Really, Web 2.0 forums have yet to catch up. /sarcasm
Map under the lakes of Titan? We can't even do that with EARTH's oceans yet.
Get a clue, fool
Dude, you're pretty fucking thick. I don't doubt that you have knowledge, but you're misusing it. It has nothing to do with factors. Look, there's nothing special about the index size, it's pretty much a random number in the whereabouts of 121 billion, correct? We must agree on that. And our arbitrary number could be any number, I mean, the falsifiability of my claim can be tested by trying any other number.
So, considered the order of magnitude of each number, the distribution of the module of the index by my "magic number" is roughly normal, correct? Therefore, the probability for the result of the modulo to be 0 is 1/my_magic_number. What's hard to understand about this? And don't give me no shit about factors, give me a piece of your mind about the modulo and its distribution.
It's not like I found this number by decomposing the index into factors to begin with. I found it by performing a search that only returned 1 result but Cuil claimed to have 2,784. It's not like I tailored it to fit. From that point on, how far fetched is it to ponder if, just like when it claims 2,784 results I only get one, that if it claims to have an index of 43,684,588 * 2,784 it really may only have 43,684,588, considered there's only a 1 in 2,784 chance that this 43,684,588 would be an integer to begin with, considered the index modulo that 2,784 number should be random?
I accept your apology for calling me a moron.
Probability is deterministic. It's not a matter of opinion or pov. It's arithmetic.
Isn't the word you're looking for stochastic?
It's resting (sorry, had to).
But more seriously, where's the #1 forum to discuss C programming? comp.lang.c. Where's the #1 forum to discuss DSP? comp.dsp, so much that other DSP "forums" only provide an interface to it. Where's the #1 spot to tell people your new theory as to how FTL travel is possible using hidden dimensions in the aether? sci.physics.
So you see, it's not dead, or even resting, some of its branches died, some others are still thriving.
Oh yeah? Tell me again, how do I know on USENET if someone replies to one of my posts?
Mind boggling. USENET. Dead. It doesn't even need an explanation as to why it's retarded, at least not to someone who has interesting (technical) discussions there on a regular basis.
So what? The fact is, I find this 2,784 number. From that point of view, how likely is it that the huge number they claim that I look up next is a multiple of that 2,784 number? 1 out of 2,784. Period. I get your point, but it's a matter of point of view.
A CEO gets overexcited about the latest buzzword.
Thank you for your input. The point of the original comment was that it was extraordinarily unlikely that the total claimed index divided by this one "data point" would result in an integer number, therefore raising the legitimate question of whether or not this number had been inflated by that "2,784" number. Obviously you missed that point.
By the way, YouTube just called, they want their inflammatory knee-jerk reactions back.
Which makes me wonder where I can buy a spy camera for my car. I mean, if you want to film it when you get pulled over, that's what you want in your car. You also want that if ever you "get lucky" in your car. That being said I don't have a car and I never had much "luck" anyways.
Make it one with a fisheye lens by the way, or a movement tracker.