Sorry, but you sound like you've built the universe. How can you say that nothing can move faster than the speed of light with such a certainty when we only know something about a billionth of a billionth of a percent about our universe? For example, do you know what's going on in the center of a black hole? None of the theories that we are aware of right now can give answer. What about dark matter? Shape of the universe? The origins of it? The last thing we can be is certain about something as huge as universe when we are so small that we can't even see where it ends.
Read about the latest advances and theories in quantum physics and stop relying on Einstein. this is so last century! What else you're going to say, we can't fly 'cause we're heavier than air??? In his times, so many things were considered impossible that we're now taking for granted. Like, quantum physics and the latest advances and theories;).
The comoving distance from the Earth to the edge of the visible universe is about 46.5 billion light-years in any direction; this is the comoving radius of the visible universe. It is sometimes quoted as a diameter of 92-94 billion light-years.
... You will ask, "So, what's the fuss about 1bln years?"
So, what is it?
The light has traveled through an unimaginable distance, and you expect it to look the same? Where did you get this silly idea anyway? Were you there 1bln years away and see this light yourself so you have something to compare to? Man, only on Slashdot I can find... Oh wait.
Time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast moving vehicle to travel further into the future while aging very little, in that their great speed retards the rate of passage of onboard time. That is, the ship's clock (and according to relativity, any human travelling with it) shows less elapsed time than stationary clocks. For sufficiently high speeds the effect is dramatic. For example, one year of travel might correspond to ten years at home. Indeed, a constant 1 g acceleration would permit humans to circumnavigate the known universe (with a radius of some 13.7 billion light years) in one human lifetime. The space-travellers could return to earth billions of years in the future (provided the Universe hadn't collapsed and our solar system was still around, of course)...
Whoever didn't get this, give yourself a hand and read Wiki's Time Dilation topic. Save yourself some embarrassment from typing nonsense questions and arguing.
First of all, what about Linksys iPhone??? Isn't there going to be naming conflict?
Also, anybody knows if these things are on pre-order? I bet you can resell it for 3x the price on ebay in June and July!!! Wohoo 300% gain!
Side note, I still think Apple's technology is kind of limited because it's made with "dumb user" as a main target in mind. Therefore, don't expect it to give you a lot of tweaking and config options and too many features. Unless, of course, someone cracks this baby and I'm sure this will happen sooner or later...
This is actually possible (although with some delay). Look at TVUPlayer, a Chinese streaming video client that uses a peer-to-peer technology and built-in VLC player to deliver live streaming video channels to its users. The average delay between the actual TV channel and the streamed video is somewhere around 1 minute, and everyone can live with that...
My point is, streaming video using peer-to-peer technology IS possible AND has been done already.
i use myspace to talk to my real-life friends, they know me and care about me and it is very convenient for keeping in touch, sharing pictures, music and video tastes, etc.
some people just go too far in myspace because they have no real life...
in her press conference that finished just 10 minutes ago, Speaker Pelosi has said that the democrats will enforce all of their main initiatives within 100 hours (that's 4.16 days) and social security preservation initiative indefinitely...
hey, we're getting a very fast returns over here... anybody has an idea of how that's done? what did she mean by 100 hours?
Bush's "defeat speech" to start in exactly 30 minutes:) hehehe let's hear what he has to say!
i've never trusted pc makers. they constantly put the cheapest possible parts in their products in order to minimize costs. but for some reason, when i compare a cost of pc versus the cost of all of its parts, the pc always costs more. even though i know that i'll get tons of bloatware and other shit that i don't need with my new pc. their excuse for bloatware is that it will reduce cost of the pc to the user. yeah right, it will make pc makers' pockets larger, that's it.
do you know what a cheaply manufactured part does to the pc? creates a bottleneck. a power supply that is poorly made will not deliver clean voltage to the devices, which will cause various very subtle problems that are hard to diagnose and impossible to prove when claiming a warranty!
oh, also.. most pc's come with windows pre-installed. you're paying for windows without even knowing it! do you really need windows? most of slashdot users would have to say "no!", right? they're happily running their open source apps on their open source OS's.
want to have a pc that is fast, quiet, trouble-free, and easy to upgrade? go to newegg and get the damn parts! that'll save you about 30% of the cost. plus you'll know what you're getting. buy with future upgrades in mind. for example, choose a dual-socket motherboard or larger power supply. and if you're having trouble deciding what parts to buy, go to hardware guys and read their recommendations (you can trust them).
who in the hell would want a ready-built computer for him/herself? technology is so good right now, assembling one is easier than ever...
I don't understand how people getting scammed in some way through the Internet is somehow so different from a telephone or a face-to-face meeting.
i'll tell you the difference. in real life, if i'd go to a ghetto neighborhood and start talking to the "wrong people" there and then get in trouble (get shot, beaten up, sold drugs, arrested by police, etc.), who in the world would say that it's not my fault to go somewhere knowing that it's a dangerous place to go to? that's the equivalent of going to zango or other malware/adware distributors (they don't come to your door and tell you to download their stuff) and downloading their content (and in that way, agreeing to their legal terms) and THEN complaining that the computer is full of shit.. well.. you should've known better.. and if you don't.. go to a community college and take computers 101 course to learn how to see that difference!
we don't let 4-year-olds walk alone on the streets because they don't possess the necessary judgment/experience necessary to navigate in real world - how is that different from lame/old/plain stupid people who are navigating through the virtual world without having any idea of what they're doing?
Maybe people should just need a license to use the Internet
the problem isn't the phishing websites. it's the stupid/old/'technophobic' people. those who can't safely use the technology, they shouldn't be allowed to. but of course we're not to allow/disallow that basic right to them. don't blame the phishers - they are just taking advantage of the stupid people. it's a jungle and life is the survival of the fittest. let's not be on the stupid people's side, please???
and yes, if grandma can't tell the difference between her bank and a fake site, perhaps she shouldn't be trusted large sums of money and have someone help her handle her financial transactions. on the side note, i've seen a lot of car accidents involving old drivers who kill young potent people... what right those old scumbags have to take away young lives?
i say, people who aren't smart enough to not install those "free screen savers" and "blackjack casino" games deserve to have their computers thrashed by ad ware. maybe they'll learn the lesson when 100 pop-ups launch every time they click on the blue "e" thing.
same goes to the people who still believe that they can get a free alienware laptop by filling out surveys and "browsing" the web.
As diaries are replaced with blogs, and letters are replaced with email, and telegrams are replaced with IMs and phone calls, a huge amount of information that might have survived previously as worn scraps of paper is destroyed as soon as it's consumed, thereby denying a window into the everyday culture of the time to future archeo- and anthropologists.
... but that has little to do with Wikipedia, which in fact is doing the opposite - it does not destroy information by being electronically published! Rather, it keeps track of all the previous versions of each article, at the same time allowing anyone (making representative sample really big) to edit the content so that it reflects their knowledge, opinions, etc. That's a huge plus. No other work in human history can claim to have ever done that.
those are called 'web farms' and those are usually 100's of sites that have single owner and they all look similar and serve you with useless advertised links. google's been high on those lately but i hope they're working on that issue.
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Sorry, but you sound like you've built the universe. How can you say that nothing can move faster than the speed of light with such a certainty when we only know something about a billionth of a billionth of a percent about our universe? For example, do you know what's going on in the center of a black hole? None of the theories that we are aware of right now can give answer. What about dark matter? Shape of the universe? The origins of it? The last thing we can be is certain about something as huge as universe when we are so small that we can't even see where it ends.
Why not, because you said so?
Read about the latest advances and theories in quantum physics and stop relying on Einstein. this is so last century! What else you're going to say, we can't fly 'cause we're heavier than air??? In his times, so many things were considered impossible that we're now taking for granted. Like, quantum physics and the latest advances and theories
Peace out and keep your eye on this.
The news are in, Apple is being sued by Cisco over the iPhone trademark, and I'm not surprised. Now what, these two are going to eat each other alive? Apple already announced the product, but Cisco pwns the name. What's it gonna be?
The light has traveled through an unimaginable distance, and you expect it to look the same? Where did you get this silly idea anyway? Were you there 1bln years away and see this light yourself so you have something to compare to? Man, only on Slashdot I can find... Oh wait.
Is "EARTH 6000" some kind of a new model of Earth? And ours is what, 5000 beta? And I wonder why didn't we notice God making it only years ago.
Whoever didn't get this, give yourself a hand and read Wiki's Time Dilation topic. Save yourself some embarrassment from typing nonsense questions and arguing.
First of all, what about Linksys iPhone??? Isn't there going to be naming conflict?
Also, anybody knows if these things are on pre-order? I bet you can resell it for 3x the price on ebay in June and July!!! Wohoo 300% gain!
Side note, I still think Apple's technology is kind of limited because it's made with "dumb user" as a main target in mind. Therefore, don't expect it to give you a lot of tweaking and config options and too many features. Unless, of course, someone cracks this baby and I'm sure this will happen sooner or later...
iPhone is already released by Linksys... Too bad, Apple will have to come up with another name if they are going for it.
This is actually possible (although with some delay). Look at TVUPlayer, a Chinese streaming video client that uses a peer-to-peer technology and built-in VLC player to deliver live streaming video channels to its users. The average delay between the actual TV channel and the streamed video is somewhere around 1 minute, and everyone can live with that...
My point is, streaming video using peer-to-peer technology IS possible AND has been done already.
i use myspace to talk to my real-life friends, they know me and care about me and it is very convenient for keeping in touch, sharing pictures, music and video tastes, etc. some people just go too far in myspace because they have no real life...
Amen! Nothing else to add. Go patch your servers and monitor the logs... stop whining about insecure OS's when the real problem is you. YOU!
I say, both Dems and Reps paid the Diebold to cheat the elections... so the cheats just canceled out each other! ;)
in her press conference that finished just 10 minutes ago, Speaker Pelosi has said that the democrats will enforce all of their main initiatives within 100 hours (that's 4.16 days) and social security preservation initiative indefinitely... :) hehehe let's hear what he has to say!
hey, we're getting a very fast returns over here... anybody has an idea of how that's done? what did she mean by 100 hours?
Bush's "defeat speech" to start in exactly 30 minutes
i've never trusted pc makers. they constantly put the cheapest possible parts in their products in order to minimize costs. but for some reason, when i compare a cost of pc versus the cost of all of its parts, the pc always costs more. even though i know that i'll get tons of bloatware and other shit that i don't need with my new pc. their excuse for bloatware is that it will reduce cost of the pc to the user. yeah right, it will make pc makers' pockets larger, that's it.
do you know what a cheaply manufactured part does to the pc? creates a bottleneck. a power supply that is poorly made will not deliver clean voltage to the devices, which will cause various very subtle problems that are hard to diagnose and impossible to prove when claiming a warranty!
oh, also.. most pc's come with windows pre-installed. you're paying for windows without even knowing it! do you really need windows? most of slashdot users would have to say "no!", right? they're happily running their open source apps on their open source OS's.
want to have a pc that is fast, quiet, trouble-free, and easy to upgrade? go to newegg and get the damn parts! that'll save you about 30% of the cost. plus you'll know what you're getting. buy with future upgrades in mind. for example, choose a dual-socket motherboard or larger power supply. and if you're having trouble deciding what parts to buy, go to hardware guys and read their recommendations (you can trust them).
who in the hell would want a ready-built computer for him/herself? technology is so good right now, assembling one is easier than ever...
they should get a mac instead! wohoo i'm number one!
what the hell is zombo.com is all about? some stupid voice repeating that 'anything is possible'..? then they ask me to sign up for a newsletter
i say, people who aren't smart enough to not install those "free screen savers" and "blackjack casino" games deserve to have their computers thrashed by ad ware. maybe they'll learn the lesson when 100 pop-ups launch every time they click on the blue "e" thing. same goes to the people who still believe that they can get a free alienware laptop by filling out surveys and "browsing" the web.
those are called 'web farms' and those are usually 100's of sites that have single owner and they all look similar and serve you with useless advertised links. google's been high on those lately but i hope they're working on that issue.
if they knew how to fix it (or had time) they definitely would. at least give them thanks for pointing out an error.