So tell me then, when does this stop? If it continues to dissipate energy simply due to "gravitational heating", I think we should award you the nobel prize for the first ever perpetual motion machine thereby proving all science wrong.
I don't deny they are not hot initially, but they must start cooling immediately. With no outside energy source, they'd end up as (perhaps?) solid cores hurtling through space.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Perhaps an extinguished star? A so-called white dwarf? (see: this link). Was this system at one time a binary star system?
Has a white dwarf ever been found? It seems a white dwarf would surrounded by a nebula from a supernova(according to the above link). Is there one in this system? (I haven't checked) A supernova would necessitate a large star. Can white dwarf stars form from smaller stars? Would they be called something else since they wouldn't result from a supernova?
Also, if smaller stars can produce white dwarf stars, is it even possible they could have burned out by now? (since smaller stars burn more slowly) Anyone with sufficient depth of knowledge care to clarify?
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
You're right it would. In fact, it fits better than anything of the other ideas I've seen. Buuuuuut, a jet pack is pushing it methinks...:-)
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Re:What IT Is And Isn't
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What is 'IT'?
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I'm beginning to agree that IT is some mode of personal transportation(like those scooter things, but better). Given the inventors' previous experience with such machinery(the wheelchair) and all the comments in the article this seems like the most logical conlusion. Relieve traffic congestion downtown with a scooter like device? It would have to be alot better than that though. Up here in Canada, it would get mighty cold riding one of them things to work.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I think you are SO way off base it's not even funny. Darwin is the foundation of OS X. It's a complete BSD system running on a Mach kernel. I've used it quite a bit and the only thing different from my standard linux installation on my Athlon box(aside from kernel differences) is configuration.
Darwin uses Netinfo(from NEXT) and xml, and linux uses standard SysVinit style startup scripts and text files for configuration. Those things alone do not define a Unix, the philosophy behind the OS design and its structure defines a Unix. Darwin has full glibc AFAIK and gcc. Everything is a file. Symlinks, shells, XFree, Apache, etc. are all part of Darwin(which by default boots into a simple console by the way).
So I think you're just seriously misinformed.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
The best I've seen up to this point have been Jet Li's older movies
Exactly! "Fist of Legend" rules! Did you notice how many scenes from The Matrix were ripped right out of Fist of Legend? I couldn't believe it! The audacity! I've seen a few more of his older movies, but the names escape me at this time of night...
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
She's got knowledge and passion... and spending time with her gives me that rare feeling of humility.
That must be a pretty rare thing to experience huh? Geeks usually have this mentality that they are intellectually superior and it often gets them into social trouble if they take it too far... it's happened to me a few times. But it happens because it's rare for geeks to feel humbled. I think that would definitely be a good thing for every geek to experience... especially me now. Maybe it'll actually motivate me to study for my three exams this week instead of reading Slashdot.:-P
I fully concur with the DaVinci suggestion though. I never had any mentors or heroes as a kid, but he was the one I looked up to the most. Truly an extraordinary guy.
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Also, this GREATLY simplifies communicating with Internet Appliances. As someone previously mentioned, Inferno is an embedded OS. Having the same OS embedded within your browser as you do in your appliances permits seemless interaction and communication with all Internet Appliances you may have in the home.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Completely portable*, viewable from any IE browser on any Windows OS running on any 32-bit Intel processor that has mute, pigmented spokesperson with big eyes and a high pain threshold, decked out with an Intellimouse Explorer w/Intellieye and MS Natural Internet-Ready Keyboard.
*as long as it's Microsoft Windows
There. That sounds better. Now I have a headache from thinking like Microsoft.:-)
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the upcoming battle between XML standards proposed by Sun and Microsoft.
Golly. To think, all this time I was under the impression that XML was the standard created by the W3C. But hey, if Microsoft says we need an XML standard, I guess we do.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Attack is sometimes the best form of defence. But you have a good point. Unfortunately, I don't know how much funding the Vorbis project has. EFF might be a good choice on this issue though.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
"A method of compressing audio to preserve quality but reduce space usage."
Well then there's no problem! Ogg Vorbis could be patented under the premise, "Another method of compressing audio to preserve quality but reduce space usage."
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
The scarey part is though the uk can try to go back and say that sealand belongs to theim
Read the Sealand website. Sealand is located in international waters. England has already tried to take the land back since they occupied it during the second world war. The case went to the supreme court and England LOST. The country is free of English jurisdiction.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
It only requires a tape long enough to solve the problem that is on the tape. Therefore, not infinite.
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Re:First of all, we don't even bother to store it.
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I don't believe memories are stored in the axons themselves. I recall reading an article (perhaps Scientific American) which placed memory storage in a long molecular chain that the brain constructs as memories are moved into long-term storage. Immediate memory is certainly accessed from axons for rapid processing and such, but long term storage was placed in this long chain which the article said had incredible storage potential.
The brain searched along this chain and could remove a part of the chain which corresponded to the desired memory. But obviouvsly anyone who's taken any chemistry knows that getting exact results with chemistry is like voodoo, so naturally the brain might even end up with parts of neighbouring memories(and hence mixing up these memories and recalling them together). I can't recall all the details now because I read the article about two years ago, but that's the jist of it. So your I'm afraid your analysis is flawed. The brain is not exactly like a neural net. Too simple a model.
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So tell me then, when does this stop? If it continues to dissipate energy simply due to "gravitational heating", I think we should award you the nobel prize for the first ever perpetual motion machine thereby proving all science wrong.
I don't deny they are not hot initially, but they must start cooling immediately. With no outside energy source, they'd end up as (perhaps?) solid cores hurtling through space.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
the definition of white dwarf is star who has exhausted all fuel which therefore implies that it gives off no light.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Perhaps an extinguished star? A so-called white dwarf? (see: this link). Was this system at one time a binary star system?
Has a white dwarf ever been found? It seems a white dwarf would surrounded by a nebula from a supernova(according to the above link). Is there one in this system? (I haven't checked) A supernova would necessitate a large star. Can white dwarf stars form from smaller stars? Would they be called something else since they wouldn't result from a supernova?
Also, if smaller stars can produce white dwarf stars, is it even possible they could have burned out by now? (since smaller stars burn more slowly) Anyone with sufficient depth of knowledge care to clarify?
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
It's an invention, not a scientific discovery. It's like building a better combustion engine, not warp drive. It doesn't have to be peer reviewed.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
You're right it would. In fact, it fits better than anything of the other ideas I've seen. Buuuuuut, a jet pack is pushing it methinks... :-)
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I'm beginning to agree that IT is some mode of personal transportation(like those scooter things, but better). Given the inventors' previous experience with such machinery(the wheelchair) and all the comments in the article this seems like the most logical conlusion. Relieve traffic congestion downtown with a scooter like device? It would have to be alot better than that though. Up here in Canada, it would get mighty cold riding one of them things to work.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Oh come on!
The Phantom Menace Strikes back!
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I think you are SO way off base it's not even funny. Darwin is the foundation of OS X. It's a complete BSD system running on a Mach kernel. I've used it quite a bit and the only thing different from my standard linux installation on my Athlon box(aside from kernel differences) is configuration.
Darwin uses Netinfo(from NEXT) and xml, and linux uses standard SysVinit style startup scripts and text files for configuration. Those things alone do not define a Unix, the philosophy behind the OS design and its structure defines a Unix. Darwin has full glibc AFAIK and gcc. Everything is a file. Symlinks, shells, XFree, Apache, etc. are all part of Darwin(which by default boots into a simple console by the way).
So I think you're just seriously misinformed.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
True, FreeBSD is porting to PPC, but I believe their focus is on PPC embedded systems, so no great support for Desktop or server.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
What? I'm sorry, when did that happen? I must have missed that.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
The best I've seen up to this point have been Jet Li's older movies
Exactly! "Fist of Legend" rules! Did you notice how many scenes from The Matrix were ripped right out of Fist of Legend? I couldn't believe it! The audacity! I've seen a few more of his older movies, but the names escape me at this time of night...
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Sun Announces It Will Ship Solaris With Eazel
I think you mean 'Eazel with Solaris'.
That would be pretty funny though. 'Hey, I just bought Eazel and it came with this thing called Solaris.'
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Hear, Hear. ;-)
Is this becoming a Slashdot rallying cry or something? It's like the fifth time I've seen it today.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
She's got knowledge and passion... and spending time with her gives me that rare feeling of humility.
:-P
That must be a pretty rare thing to experience huh? Geeks usually have this mentality that they are intellectually superior and it often gets them into social trouble if they take it too far... it's happened to me a few times. But it happens because it's rare for geeks to feel humbled. I think that would definitely be a good thing for every geek to experience... especially me now. Maybe it'll actually motivate me to study for my three exams this week instead of reading Slashdot.
I fully concur with the DaVinci suggestion though. I never had any mentors or heroes as a kid, but he was the one I looked up to the most. Truly an extraordinary guy.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Also, this GREATLY simplifies communicating with Internet Appliances. As someone previously mentioned, Inferno is an embedded OS. Having the same OS embedded within your browser as you do in your appliances permits seemless interaction and communication with all Internet Appliances you may have in the home.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I would propose one revision to your description:
:-)
Completely portable*, viewable from any IE browser on any Windows OS running on any 32-bit Intel processor that has mute, pigmented spokesperson with big eyes and a high pain threshold, decked out with an Intellimouse Explorer w/Intellieye and MS Natural Internet-Ready Keyboard.
*as long as it's Microsoft Windows
There. That sounds better. Now I have a headache from thinking like Microsoft.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
the upcoming battle between XML standards proposed by Sun and Microsoft.
Golly. To think, all this time I was under the impression that XML was the standard created by the W3C. But hey, if Microsoft says we need an XML standard, I guess we do.
I wonder what they're going to call it... "Microsoft XML: The standard standard."
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
Attack is the best form of defence.
Attack is sometimes the best form of defence. But you have a good point. Unfortunately, I don't know how much funding the Vorbis project has. EFF might be a good choice on this issue though.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
"A method of compressing audio to preserve quality but reduce space usage."
Well then there's no problem! Ogg Vorbis could be patented under the premise, "Another method of compressing audio to preserve quality but reduce space usage."
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
a 'good' microkernel based OS:
-QNX
-VSTa
-xMach
-Darwin
-MorphOS
-L4
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
a 'good' microkernel based OS:
-QNX
-VSTa
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
The scarey part is though the uk can try to go back and say that sealand belongs to theim
Read the Sealand website. Sealand is located in international waters. England has already tried to take the land back since they occupied it during the second world war. The case went to the supreme court and England LOST. The country is free of English jurisdiction.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
As of posting, the counter is 490.
:-)
LOL... good idea posting that... it's at 50966 now...
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
TM requires infinite tape.
It only requires a tape long enough to solve the problem that is on the tape. Therefore, not infinite.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"
I don't believe memories are stored in the axons themselves. I recall reading an article (perhaps Scientific American) which placed memory storage in a long molecular chain that the brain constructs as memories are moved into long-term storage. Immediate memory is certainly accessed from axons for rapid processing and such, but long term storage was placed in this long chain which the article said had incredible storage potential.
The brain searched along this chain and could remove a part of the chain which corresponded to the desired memory. But obviouvsly anyone who's taken any chemistry knows that getting exact results with chemistry is like voodoo, so naturally the brain might even end up with parts of neighbouring memories(and hence mixing up these memories and recalling them together). I can't recall all the details now because I read the article about two years ago, but that's the jist of it. So your I'm afraid your analysis is flawed. The brain is not exactly like a neural net. Too simple a model.
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"