Kids these days.. scared of pointers and memory allocation. Competent C coders hardly ever meet such problems. After a few years of C coding you know how to make sure you never refer to freed memory, or let something leek. Surely it may be nice not to have to worry about such things as that, but when the language won't catch your mistakes you learn how to not make any.
If a car analogy is really necessary, you can compare that to the difference between learning with manual and automatic clutching on cars. People who learn how to drive on automatic cars may find that manual clutching is mad/arcane, but when you learn with it you just find that it's a normal part of driving.
Bottomonium consists of a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark bound together by the strong force
I feel a great disturbance in the strong Force, as if millions of bottom and anti-bottom quarks were bound together in the Upsilon(3S) state and suddenly decayed by emitting a gamma ray.
steel iron does many things in changes. why choose granite to drill as predictor?
A wild stab in the dark : because granite is made of quartz which is notorious for its piezoelectric properties and these characteristics would be affected by the changes this article is talking about?
Interesting, and considered the stakes and how few of such methods have had any sort of success, I wish people (governments/universities) would spend more money on that sort of research.
I'm thinking in particular of this technique that relies on electrotelluric signals to predict earthquakes a few hours before they occur. It's been a controversial technique ever since it appeared in the 1980s, and that's the problem, it's controversial. If we had put more effort into investigating such possibilities we would know for sure what it's worth by now.
Earthquakes regularly kill hundred thousands of people, and it's just that sort of technique that could save them. And it's not just people in Asia. The stakes are also pretty high in Japan, Greece and California. So why ain't there any array of electrotelluric signal sensors in California to figure that sort of thing out??
It depends what you call better. If by 'better' you mean 'bigger' I take it you'd think that this is better than this.
And 128 MB is plenty. Sure in the wonderful of bloated modern PC software where the simplest e-mail client hogs up 40 MB of RAM it might not seem like much but there's little you can't do with 128 MB by designing software properly that can't be done with 2 GB. Just to put in perspective how 128 MB is a lot, the Playstation 2 only had 32 MB of RAM, which was obviously enough to run Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.
Hehe, by today's standards. Compared to the entire future history of space technology, we're still in the primitive phase.
That whole "OMG an IBM POWER running at 33 MHz == primitive" thing is just silly. Yeah, your telephone is faster than that, so what? It doesn't make it better than the Apollo program's on-board computer, no matter how "primitive" it is. It does everything it has to do and that's what matters. What would be the interest of having a 2 GHz CPU on a space probe rather than a 33 MHz CPU? Not that much, considering that the CPU speed is hardly a bottleneck. A faster CPU won't give more pixels to your images, it won't make you communicate faster with Earth, and it won't make you any less likely to fail.
Insisting that it's primitive is silly and ignorant of what such computers do. They don't run Gentoo and compile programs while running Firefox and playing Call of Duty 4. That would be like saying that an old iPod is primitive because its ARM7 core only runs at 80 MHz. Which is plenty for what it does, so quit it with that non-sense and false "we are primitive compared to our future selves" humility. That's just bullcrap only a scifi geek would even consider thinking.
it's trivial to implement. Just create a device that temporarily cuts the power periodically unless instructed to do otherwise by the computer. Voilà you got an automatic reset switch.
Or how about you just RTFA instead of trying to reinvent the wheel? It says that they have this external stop watch system thing that expects a ping from the main computer thing every 64 seconds and that if it doesn't get it it resets the computer. Well of course there's a bit more to it but just RTFA.
Interestingly enough while semi-randomly browsing YouTube I found this video of Dennis Kucinich talking about how the congress is trying to push that FISA thing and how they went as far as having a secret congress meeting (the 6th in history) dedicated to the topic.
Seems like unlike what I first thought that stakes are much higher than what I suspected would be an issue only the Slashdot crowd would care about. I hope this video sheds some light on the context of this news article, even though the video isn't news.
Well actually I recall hearing in a documentary dedicated to the subject that the aging process was only temporary and that when you reach a certain age it stops, as in, you won't get any worse. So I don't think a 1000-year old man would look much different than a super-centenary (110+ year old).
Ha, thank you, dear Slashdot editor, for inserting a necessary car analogy here! As you rightly guessed, it came right at the point in the summary where my feeble mind wondered "huh?!? photon avalanche wtf???".
Thanks to your enlightening analogy my next thoughts were "ha, a Ferrari, of course! So this has nothing to do with the dangers of skiing on beams of light!", at which point I decided to stop reading the summary as these few concise words seemed to synthesise perfectly the very essence of this discovery, and that my mind proceeded to wander about how awesome it would be to be able to ski on waves of light!
Thank you a thousand times, oh most esteemed and wise Slashdot editor!
You could then measure the distance to the moon with a 10 Watts laser, a telescope, a very precise clock and the newly build photon counter. On the moon are placed some special reflection spots just for exactly this purpose.
Utter bullcrap. The signal you get back is quadrillion times (I'm not making that up) weaker than the signal you send, to the point that scientists who do that use very powerful lasers (forgot how much, but it's a lot, look it up) and do it for about 10 minutes (again, if I recall correctly) so that they can distinguish their signal from noise. Besides I believe there's already CCDs out there that are noiseless and can count single photons (not in commercial cameras of course).
lol.. that's a ridiculous point. No way you're French, otherwise you'd know that all these dialects are practically dead because no-one wants to speak them because they are irrelevant. Not quite like how Quebec is struggling to make people stick to French rather than move on to English.
Hehe, as a matter of fact my first acquaintance with the Canadian French dialect dates back to that French radio show I used to listen to on which they would call random people in Quebec just to learn and mock their expressions. Back then in the late 90s that whole thing was a novelty as we were, if you will, rediscovering Quebec.
Famous quotes from random anonymous Quebecois such as "La la, j'va vous faire r'monter par les pawlices, tabarnac!" were all the rage back then. Strangely enough from that point on the few Quebec-related chatrooms I've visited were mainly populated by other Frenchmen who just like me were there only to imitate and mock their linguistic ways.
When the paper turns to dust? Do you know how long it takes for the paper to turn to dust? On the order of 500 years. A properly stored magazine will outlive the 5th generation of your descendants as well as the last functioning museum DVD player. Surely there are many compelling reasons for digitising a magazine, if just to still be able to consult it in its digital form while the original rests and takes the test of time. But the magazine will outlive its digital copy, at least with much less effort and thought.
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Why do you 'sudo' when you are already root?
Why for super-superuser powers of course! You didn't really believe that just being root let you do absolutely anything, did you?
Kids these days.. scared of pointers and memory allocation. Competent C coders hardly ever meet such problems. After a few years of C coding you know how to make sure you never refer to freed memory, or let something leek. Surely it may be nice not to have to worry about such things as that, but when the language won't catch your mistakes you learn how to not make any.
If a car analogy is really necessary, you can compare that to the difference between learning with manual and automatic clutching on cars. People who learn how to drive on automatic cars may find that manual clutching is mad/arcane, but when you learn with it you just find that it's a normal part of driving.
You're like the 4th idiot
Sure, *we* are the idiots. Right.. ;-)
Of course it's not dead...
It's resting!
*ducks*
Wait, what kind of IT job for a *company* we know would involve ultra-high security and bodyguards? Sounds like BS.
Here it comes :
Bottomonium consists of a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark bound together by the strong force
I feel a great disturbance in the strong Force, as if millions of bottom and anti-bottom quarks were bound together in the Upsilon(3S) state and suddenly decayed by emitting a gamma ray.
steel iron does many things in changes. why choose granite to drill as predictor?
A wild stab in the dark : because granite is made of quartz which is notorious for its piezoelectric properties and these characteristics would be affected by the changes this article is talking about?
It's called post-prediction. We have all the techniques we need for that, thank you.
Interesting, and considered the stakes and how few of such methods have had any sort of success, I wish people (governments/universities) would spend more money on that sort of research.
I'm thinking in particular of this technique that relies on electrotelluric signals to predict earthquakes a few hours before they occur. It's been a controversial technique ever since it appeared in the 1980s, and that's the problem, it's controversial. If we had put more effort into investigating such possibilities we would know for sure what it's worth by now.
Earthquakes regularly kill hundred thousands of people, and it's just that sort of technique that could save them. And it's not just people in Asia. The stakes are also pretty high in Japan, Greece and California. So why ain't there any array of electrotelluric signal sensors in California to figure that sort of thing out??
I throw away hardware better than that!
It depends what you call better. If by 'better' you mean 'bigger' I take it you'd think that this is better than this.
And 128 MB is plenty. Sure in the wonderful of bloated modern PC software where the simplest e-mail client hogs up 40 MB of RAM it might not seem like much but there's little you can't do with 128 MB by designing software properly that can't be done with 2 GB. Just to put in perspective how 128 MB is a lot, the Playstation 2 only had 32 MB of RAM, which was obviously enough to run Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.
Hehe, by today's standards. Compared to the entire future history of space technology, we're still in the primitive phase.
That whole "OMG an IBM POWER running at 33 MHz == primitive" thing is just silly. Yeah, your telephone is faster than that, so what? It doesn't make it better than the Apollo program's on-board computer, no matter how "primitive" it is. It does everything it has to do and that's what matters. What would be the interest of having a 2 GHz CPU on a space probe rather than a 33 MHz CPU? Not that much, considering that the CPU speed is hardly a bottleneck. A faster CPU won't give more pixels to your images, it won't make you communicate faster with Earth, and it won't make you any less likely to fail.
Insisting that it's primitive is silly and ignorant of what such computers do. They don't run Gentoo and compile programs while running Firefox and playing Call of Duty 4. That would be like saying that an old iPod is primitive because its ARM7 core only runs at 80 MHz. Which is plenty for what it does, so quit it with that non-sense and false "we are primitive compared to our future selves" humility. That's just bullcrap only a scifi geek would even consider thinking.
it's trivial to implement. Just create a device that temporarily cuts the power periodically unless instructed to do otherwise by the computer. Voilà you got an automatic reset switch.
Or how about you just RTFA instead of trying to reinvent the wheel? It says that they have this external stop watch system thing that expects a ping from the main computer thing every 64 seconds and that if it doesn't get it it resets the computer. Well of course there's a bit more to it but just RTFA.
Interestingly enough while semi-randomly browsing YouTube I found this video of Dennis Kucinich talking about how the congress is trying to push that FISA thing and how they went as far as having a secret congress meeting (the 6th in history) dedicated to the topic.
Seems like unlike what I first thought that stakes are much higher than what I suspected would be an issue only the Slashdot crowd would care about. I hope this video sheds some light on the context of this news article, even though the video isn't news.
Million, trillion, same thing!
lol, how's that? What's mind blowing? Or did I miss something?
If a 100-year old man looks like a white prune?
Well actually I recall hearing in a documentary dedicated to the subject that the aging process was only temporary and that when you reach a certain age it stops, as in, you won't get any worse. So I don't think a 1000-year old man would look much different than a super-centenary (110+ year old).
This mollusc supposedly just kept growing and growing and migrating its shell when it was not big enough.
That one by any chance? Well it says its life span is 30 years in the wild.
That's like turning a Fiat 500 into a Ferrari
Ha, thank you, dear Slashdot editor, for inserting a necessary car analogy here! As you rightly guessed, it came right at the point in the summary where my feeble mind wondered "huh?!? photon avalanche wtf???".
Thanks to your enlightening analogy my next thoughts were "ha, a Ferrari, of course! So this has nothing to do with the dangers of skiing on beams of light!", at which point I decided to stop reading the summary as these few concise words seemed to synthesise perfectly the very essence of this discovery, and that my mind proceeded to wander about how awesome it would be to be able to ski on waves of light!
Thank you a thousand times, oh most esteemed and wise Slashdot editor!
You could then measure the distance to the moon with a 10 Watts laser, a telescope, a very precise clock and the newly build photon counter. On the moon are placed some special reflection spots just for exactly this purpose.
Utter bullcrap. The signal you get back is quadrillion times (I'm not making that up) weaker than the signal you send, to the point that scientists who do that use very powerful lasers (forgot how much, but it's a lot, look it up) and do it for about 10 minutes (again, if I recall correctly) so that they can distinguish their signal from noise. Besides I believe there's already CCDs out there that are noiseless and can count single photons (not in commercial cameras of course).
Jeez. I can't remember how many times I entered in BillGates@Microsoft.com as an email address on some random site.
Guess that makes me a felon? Or am I only a felon if I get caught?
Too bad his email address really is billg@microsoft.com, really..
lol.. that's a ridiculous point. No way you're French, otherwise you'd know that all these dialects are practically dead because no-one wants to speak them because they are irrelevant. Not quite like how Quebec is struggling to make people stick to French rather than move on to English.
Networked C64? Cool, wake me up when you get a Beowulf cluster of these!
Hehe, as a matter of fact my first acquaintance with the Canadian French dialect dates back to that French radio show I used to listen to on which they would call random people in Quebec just to learn and mock their expressions. Back then in the late 90s that whole thing was a novelty as we were, if you will, rediscovering Quebec.
Famous quotes from random anonymous Quebecois such as "La la, j'va vous faire r'monter par les pawlices, tabarnac!" were all the rage back then. Strangely enough from that point on the few Quebec-related chatrooms I've visited were mainly populated by other Frenchmen who just like me were there only to imitate and mock their linguistic ways.
When the paper turns to dust? Do you know how long it takes for the paper to turn to dust? On the order of 500 years. A properly stored magazine will outlive the 5th generation of your descendants as well as the last functioning museum DVD player. Surely there are many compelling reasons for digitising a magazine, if just to still be able to consult it in its digital form while the original rests and takes the test of time. But the magazine will outlive its digital copy, at least with much less effort and thought.
Let me guess, your company is quite small. Either that or you're just trolling to make a point.